Riyadh – Afghanistan’s deputy Foreign Minister Nasir Ahmad Andisha inaugurated on Saturday the “Afghan Cultural Heritage Exhibition – The Silk Road” at Riyadh’s King Fahad Cultural Center in a celebration inspired by the Afghan art. A huge crowd of history and culture lovers gathered at the center t
San Francisco, London- A team of US researchers has developed a new technique allowing doctors to understand the patient’s facial expressions, through a robot that can express pain. This will definitely help doctors in diagnosing disease and evaluating the level of pain felt by patients. Yet, it’s a
Tokyo – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz stressed the need to intensify international efforts to resolve crises in the Middle East, including the Palestinian cause and the Syrian and Yemeni conflicts. “Terrorism has become the greatest danger to the security of state
Moscow, London – As the Kazakh foreign ministry placed the final touches to host the third round of the intra-Syrian talks expected to kick off on Tuesday in Astana, the Syrian opposition announced its decision not to attend the meeting. The opposition’s choice came in light of the violations
Ramallah – Tel Aviv – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to meet on Tuesday with US President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, in Ramallah, to discuss the means to launch the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Well-informed Palestinian sources told A
Riyadh, Jeddah – Representatives of the Yemen quartet, as well as the Sultanate of Oman, met on Monday in the British capital, London, to discuss prospects of a political settlement to end the war in the country. A British diplomat, who wished to remain anonymous, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the
Mosul – A person walking in the liberated streets of western Mosul does not miss the smell of fire and death. The first smell emanates from the ruins of a shooting between Iraqi forces and ISIS militants in the Old City. The second smell comes from the bodies of Iraqi and foreign militants that fill
Turkey on Monday threatened to impose sanctions against its NATO ally the Netherlands as tensions between the two sides continued to simmer over Amsterdam’s ban on Turkish ministers speaking at political events in Rotterdam. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is seeking support from Turks in a refe
New York, Cairo-The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute conducted an intensive multi-week exercise to frame, design, and evaluate potential courses of action that the United States could pursue to defeat the threat from
Riyadh- Combat operations against the insurgents will not stop until they give up for peace and abide by international resolutions, especially the Security Council resolution 2116, a senior Yemeni official said. Advisor to President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi Abdulaziz al-Maflahi told Asharq Al-Awsat t
Riyadh,Tokyo- Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Japan Ahmed al-Barrak confirmed that King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s visit to the island nation entails grand-scale importance. Japan has long recognized and appreciated King Salman, casting him among the list of top and most influential international figures.
It is not enough to love our country. We have to learn how to love it. Immature or impulsive love could harm both sides. It’s no secret that Arab nations are standing at a crossroads and they have to make immediate decisions and crystallize their vision in the global village, which is witnessing fas
Brussels – Secretary General of Muslim World League (MWL) Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa warned that the extremist reaction against Islam is a result of Islamophobia. He indicated that it will generate more sufferings and increase numbers of extremists who previously were moderate persons co
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Monday that Scotland will begin the process next week for making a request to the British government to hold a new independence referendum once the terms of Britain’s exit from the European Union have become clearer. Sturgeon said Scotland was being
Riyadh – British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Simon Collis revealed that Riyadh and London are working together in the field of higher education and that this cooperation will expand over the next ten years. He added that over 100,000 Saudis graduated from British universities over the past ten years.
Dammam- A wanted person was fatally wounded during an operation by Saudi security forces in eastern Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. The man, killed during a raid on Saturday morning targeting wanted people in Awwamiyya village in Qatif, was identified as Walid Talal Ali al-Areed.
Tel Aviv – Political circles in Israel are expecting Washington to take action on the resumption of negotiations on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Experts expect the Donald Trump administration to call for a regional peace conference which will launch new talks or lead to a summit bringing togeth
Sana’a- The Sana’a-based association of abductees’ mothers held on Sunday a demonstration near the United Nations Office in the militia-held capital, Sana’a, denouncing attempts to link the fate of their abducted sons to the chaotic political scene. In its statement, the associatio
At least 14 people were killed on Monday in two separate bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The first was a car bombing near a hotel on a busy street in the capital. At least 13 people were killed, police and the emergency medical services said, hours after a man was killed by a blast [&helli
Syria’s war has killed just over 320,000 people since it erupted six years ago as violence against children in the war-ravaged country was “at its worst” in 2016, a monitor and the UN’s children’s agency said Monday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
